If you manage to avoid this pitfall, and to reach the top of the mountain, you will find there the Talking Bird in a splendid cage, and you can ask of him where you are to seek the Singing Tree and the
Golden Water.
Your master the King has sent me hither to tell you to send him his
golden armour and his steed and the silver apple.
A fair maid, that," he said smilingly, "and one more worthy the
golden arrow than the Sheriff's haughty miss.
She had sunk into one of the
golden thrones, and as I turned to her she greeted me with a wan smile.
Swiftly and soon the
golden sun goes down, The blue sky wells afar into the night.
You shall live in peace, and spin your delicate threads into a mantle for the stern King; and I will weave
golden threads amid the gray, that when folded over his cold heart gentle thoughts may enter in and make it their home.
What shall I do," said he, "in order to win the
Golden Fleece?
Why do you have to obey the charm of the
Golden Cap?
Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the
golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
One would have thought they were young Roman dames thrusting
golden pins into the breast of a beautiful slave.
The Twin Sailors and the
Golden Lady never came at all," he said.
In one corner played a tinkling fountain of perfumed water, and in another was a table bearing a
golden tray loaded with freshly gathered fruit, including several of the red-cheeked apples that the shaggy man loved.
After he told him his misfortune, Mercury plunged into the stream, and, bringing up a
golden axe, inquired if that were the one he had lost.
We may long have left the
golden road behind, but its memories are the dearest of our eternal possessions; and those who cherish them as such may haply find a pleasure in the pages of this book, whose people are pilgrims on the
golden road of youth.
But when strife and quarrel arise among the deathless gods, and when any of them who live in the house of Olympus lies, then Zeus sends Iris to bring in a
golden jug the great oath of the gods from far away, the famous cold water which trickles down from a high and beetling rock.